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Who shot the Archduke and his Wife?
Vladimir Lenin
Kaiser Wilhelm
Gavrilo Princip
Pancho Villa
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Who invented the telegraph?
Samuel Morse
Kevin Morse
John Telegraph
Abe Lincoln
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Who was Edwin Drake?
Apart of the Big Four working on the Transcontinental Railroad
Started The Standard Oil Company
Drilled the first oil well in PA
Invented a better way to make steel
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What year did Woodrow Wilson become president?
1908
1932
1912
2012
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Who held the first Woman's Rights Convention in NY?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
Carrie A. Nation and Ida Tarbell
Betty Crocker and Mary Pickford
Jane Addams and Janette Rankin
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Which Mexican Revolutionary invaded New Mexico in 1916?
Howard Taft
Gavrilo Princip
Alvin York
Pancho Villa
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Who was Geronimo?
Founder of the Ghost Dance
Carved Mount Rushmore
Last Great Apache Chief
Indian police officer who shot Sitting Bull
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Very popular silent film actor
Al Capone
Adolf Hitler
Ryan Reynolds
Charlie Chaplin
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Wild West Sheriff
Black Jack Pershing
Wild Bill Hickok
Jack Wilson
Buffalo Bill Cody
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Who was Black Jack Pershing?
Lead the Bolshevik revolution
Lead U.S. troops into Mexico after Pancho Villa
Assassinated Fancis Ferdinand
A really good card player
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Who invented the scientific method?
Thomas Edison
John Rockefeller
Frederick Taylor
John Adams
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Who is Thomas Edison?
The 20th President of the United States
Great inventor of the 19th century
U.S. General
Created a better way to produce steel
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Who were Randolph Hurst and Joseph Pulitzer?
Yellow Journalists
Brothers
Held responsible for the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Anarchists accused of robbing a shoe store
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What book did Ida Tarbell write?
How the Other Half Lives
The Jungle
The History of the Standard Oil Company
The Bitter Cry of the Children
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Who was Jack Dempsey?
World famous trumpet player
World famous boxer
Famous actor
Baseball Player
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Who perfected the assembly line
Jack Dempsy
Al Capone
William Simmons
Henry Ford
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Which author exposed the horrors of food manufacturing?
Frederick Taylor, The Principles of the Scientific Method
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
Jacob Riis, How the Other HalfLives
John Spargo, The Bitter Cry of Children
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What did George Custer do?
Adopted Lost Bird and raised her
Fought at Wounded Knee
Attacked at Little Big Horn
Wanted the scalps of Native Americans
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What did Andrew Carnegie do?
Invented the light-bulb
Made Cars
Invented a better way to make steel.
Scientist
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What did Kicking Bear do?
Founded the Ghost Dance
Brought the Ghost Dance to the Sioux Nation
Kicked Bears
Leader of the Apache
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Who was Dr. Gorgas?
Found a way to stop the spread of yellow fever in Panama
Carved Mount Rushmore
Military doctor
Pineapple Farmer in Hawaii
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Who was Sanford Dole?
Just a guy with a really cool beard
Invented a way to get rid of mosquitoes around the Panama Canal
Designed the lock mechanism for the Panama Canal
Pineapple farmer in Hawaii who helped get the islands annexed into America
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Who was the first person to fly across the Atlantic alone?
Orville Write
Charles Lindbergh
Al Capone
Amelia Airheart
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Whose death was the catalyst for WWI?
Gavrilo Princip
Francis Ferdinand
Pancho Villa
Woodrow Wilson
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Who was Charles Crocker?
Advocated for temperance
Started the poll tax
Worked on the Transcontinental railroad
President during the Industrial Revolution
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Who was Black Kettle?
Started the Ghost Dance
Last Great Apache Chief
Cheyenne Chief at Sand Creek
Fled to Canada after Little Big Horn
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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti?
Organized the first women's march in Washington
Owned the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
Two anarchists framed for robbing a shoe store
The brothers who invented the airplane
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Who was the lawyer for Scopes during the Scopes trial?
William Jennings
Rudolph Valentino
Clarence Darrow
Henry Ford
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Inventor of the first telephone...
Thomas Edison
Alexander Bell
Steve Jobs
Sam Sung
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Who was Janette Rankin?
Organized Washington suffrage parade on March 13,1913
Carried a hatchet and destroyed saloons
First woman elected into congress
Leader of the Women's Suffrage movement
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What did Eddie Rickenbacker do?
Captured 132 German soldiers
German fighter pilot
heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne
American fighter Pilot
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Who was Babe Ruth?
A candy maker
Trumpet player
The greatest baseball player
A world famous boxer
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Who killed Sitting Bull?
Kicking Bear
Old age
Red Tomahawk
Buffalo Bill
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Who was Mary Pickford?
Popular actress
Dancer at the Cotton Club
Miss America
Famous musician
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This hit show that reenacted Indian massacres and toured the states.
Annie Oakley; The Peerless Lady Wing-Shot
Black Jack's Mild North Performance
Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show
Sitting Bull's Native American Show
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Who was the last Monarch of Hawaii?
Queen Elizabeth II
Abe Lincoln
King George III
Queen Liluokalani
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Who was the famous trumpet player from the '20s
Martin Luther King Jr.
Babe Ruth
Marcus Garvey
Louis Armstrong
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Which Indian Chief toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show?
Sitting Bull
Kicking Bear
Geronimo
Wovoka
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Who was Al Capone?
1920's gangster
Really good guy, super nice to everyone
Famous moonshiner
Famous trumpet player
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Who founded the Ghost Dance?
Jack Wilson
Wovoka
A ghost
Kicking Bear
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Which Chief died at the Wounded Knee massacre?
Crazy Horse
Big Foot
Black Kettle
Kicking Bear
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Who ran for president 5 times?
Robert La Follette
William Taft
Eugene Debs
Upton Sinclaire
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The man known by two letters.
Abe Lincoln
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
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Rudolph Valentino
Infamous 1920's gangster
Jazz singer
Film actor
Started Valentines Day
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Who was Marcus Garvey?
World famous boxer
Great trumpet player
Played at the Cotton Club
Advocate for Black Nationalism
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Who was Lost Bird?
Native American Girl adopted by a white man after her family was massacred
The Native American who was killed while surrendering at Fort Robinson
Brought the Ghost Dance to Standing Rock Reservation
Native American Medicine Man
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Who was the leader of Germany at the Start of WWI
Teddy Roosevelt
Kaiser Wilhelm
Francis Ferdinand
Woodrow Wilson
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Who had a monopoly on the oil industry?
Abe Lincoln
Ida Tarbell
Andrew Carnegie
John Rockefeller
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Who was Alvin York?
Single-handedly captured 132 Germans
Lead the Bolsheviks
Great American fighter pilot
Lead U.S. troops into Europe